| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: past one."
Stillwell heaved his big frame a step closer to the sheriff.
"What 're you drivin' at?" he roared, his face black again.
"Evidence," snapped Hawe.
Madeline marveled at this interruption; and as Stewart
irresistibly drew her glance she saw him gray-faced as ashes,
shaking, utterly unnerved.
"I thank you, Miss Hammond," he said, huskily. "But you needn't
answer any more of Hawe's questions. He's--he's-- It's not
necessary. I'll go with him now, under arrest. Bonita will
corroborate your testimony in court, and that will save me from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: train of thought suddenly arises, as, for example, when we wake of a
morning or after violent exercise. Time, place, the same colour or sound
or smell or taste, will often call up some thought or recollection either
accidentally or naturally associated with them. But it is equally
noticeable that the new thought may occur to us, we cannot tell how or why,
by the spontaneous action of the mind itself or by the latent influence of
the body. Both science and poetry are made up of associations or
recollections, but we must observe also that the mind is not wholly
dependent on them, having also the power of origination.
There are other processes of the mind which it is good for us to study when
we are at home and by ourselves,--the manner in which thought passes into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: Anderson, who knew anything about running a boat. I forgot to
say that the Texas fellow was named Denton.
Handy Solomon had his boat all picked out. It belonged to some
Basques who had sailed her around from California. I must say
when I saw her I felt inclined to renig, for she wasn't more'n
about twenty-five feet long, was open except for a little sort of
cubbyhole up in the front of her, had one mast, and was pointed
at both ends. However, Schwartz said she was all right. He
claimed he knew the kind; that she was the sort used by French
fishermen, and could stand all sorts of trouble. She didn't look
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